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Typescript letter signed from Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Shanghai (China), to to Robert Sterling Clark, Paris (France) , 1924 June 24

Typescript letter signed from Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Shanghai (China), to to Robert Sterling Clark, Paris (France) , 1924 June 24. Page 1

Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby updates Clark on the the situation regarding the goods Clark is still storing in Shanghai. Sowerby has received no instructions from Clark regarding their disposition and wonders what Clark intends to do about paying the bills for storage. Sowerby has apparently not received a reply from Clark to his request for more money. He recounts the messy details of the bitter divorce he's going through with his wife in England. Sowerby reiterates the dangerous conditions in the areas he'd like to be collecting in and lists the work he's been doing instead, including working to improve the Royal Asiatic Museum, running events for the China Society of Science and Arts, and seeking a method for exterminating mosquitoes in Shanghai. Sowerby is disappointed that hecouldn't attend the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference and tells Clark that if Clark should endow him for life, he'd be freed from pecuniary worries and be able to carry out the great work of which he feels he's capable.

Arthur de Carle Sowerby was a naturalist, explorer and writer who accompanied Robert Sterling Clark on his 1908-09 expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in northern China. Sowerby remained in China collecting specimens for various museums of natural history and editing the journal he'd founded, The China Journal of Science and Arts. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II and returned to the United States in 1949. RSC funded Sowerby for many years. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1923 through 1930, with letters through 1953, the year before Sowerby's death. Most of the letters are from Sowerby, with some carbon copies of brief notes sent by RSC. The letters concern the often dire state of Sowerby’s finances as well as updates on his scientific pursuits and analyses of the tumultuous political and economic situation in China.

Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby updates Clark on the the situation regarding the goods Clark is still storing in Shanghai. Sowerby has received no instructions from Clark regarding their disposition and wonders what Clark intends to do about paying the bills for storage. Sowerby has apparently not received a reply from Clark to his request for more money. He recounts the messy details of the bitter divorce he's going through with his wife in England. Sowerby reiterates the dangerous conditions in the areas he'd like to be collecting in and lists the work he's been doing instead, including working to improve the Royal Asiatic Museum, running events for the China Society of Science and Arts, and seeking a method for exterminating mosquitoes in Shanghai. Sowerby is disappointed that hecouldn't attend the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference and tells Clark that if Clark should endow him for life, he'd be freed from pecuniary worries and be able to carry out the great work of which he feels he's capable.

Arthur de Carle Sowerby was a naturalist, explorer and writer who accompanied Robert Sterling Clark on his 1908-09 expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in northern China. Sowerby remained in China collecting specimens for various museums of natural history and editing the journal he'd founded, The China Journal of Science and Arts. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II and returned to the United States in 1949. RSC funded Sowerby for many years. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1923 through 1930, with letters through 1953, the year before Sowerby's death. Most of the letters are from Sowerby, with some carbon copies of brief notes sent by RSC. The letters concern the often dire state of Sowerby’s finances as well as updates on his scientific pursuits and analyses of the tumultuous political and economic situation in China.